Z.A.P.

Zzzzzz zzz zzzz ZOMBIES! Protect your fortress from the onslaught of zombies headed your way. Put each zombie at peace. Stop zombies attacking people. You can't rest until all zombies are perished!

This is an actual Atari Lynx game, so you will need an Atari Lynx emulator to play it or use one of the many Flash/SD carts to play it on a real Lynx.

About

Z.A.P. was a game made for the Atari Gamer's annual LynxJam 2021 edition. It's a tower defence style game where waves of zombies approach your fortress. 

The game jam version features a continuous attack arcade mode, with a story mode planned for the future.

The game was coded in three weeks using CC65, ABCmusic, GIMP and a couple of other support tools.

How To Play

In Z.A.P. you have to build offensive and defensive structures to keep zombies out of your fortress. You must balance your energy production and consumption and keep an eye on the integrity of your structures in order to survive.

There is a background energy generation that will fill up your energy bar, but you may need to build additional power plants to support more structures. All structures require energy to be built and all structures (except the power plant) have an idle energy usage. Structures like guns and laser consume additional energy when activated. If a gun/laser can't activate, it will power down until there is enough energy to activate it again.

All structures have a structural integrity meter (yellow bar). Once this reaches zero, your structure will fall to rubble. Zombies can attack your structures, but there is also natural deterioration of structures over time.

Controls

These are in the in-game controls.

Button	Description
Opt 1	Cycle through structures to build
A	Place structure on field
B	Destroy structure on selected field position
D-pad	Change field position
Pause	Pauses the game

Item and Enemy Stats

Blaster

Damage (closest enemy) Build energy Energy Production Idle Energy Use Active Energy Use: Structural Integrity

1HP 20 0 1 3 2

Mega Blaster

Damage (closest enemy) Build energy Energy Production Idle Energy Use Active Energy Use: Structural Integrity

2HP 40 0 2 9 5

Laser

Damage (entire row) Build energy Energy Production Idle Energy Use Active Energy Use: Structural Integrity

1HP 40 0 2 15 4

Shield Wall

Damage Build energy Energy Production Idle Energy Use Active Energy Use  Structural Integrity

N/A 38 0 1 N/A 12

Power Plant

Damage Build energy Energy Production Idle Energy Use Active Energy Use  Structural Integrity

N/A 85 3 0 N/A 8

Zombie

Damage Health

1HP 4-12

Atari Lynx Development

If you are interested in developing your own games for Atari Lynx, check out The Atari Lynx Dev Wiki. Lynx is one of the easiest retro game consoles to get started coding with, and we at Atari Gamer will be running an annual game jam to get people on board. So if you have an idea for a game, don't hold back, code it for the Lynx!